IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1919

The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

Peter J. Kuhn, Chris Riddell

revised version published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940 - 1991' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (2), 183 - 204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1910

Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906

Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1904

Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation

Christian Holzner, Andrey Launov

revised version published as 'Search Equilibrium and Social and Private Returns to Education' in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (1), 39-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1902

The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model

Kai Christoffel, Keith Kuester, Tobias Linzert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1900

Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility

Ana Rute Cardoso

published as 'Money and rank in the labor market' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (2), 325 - 328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1896

The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics

Kai Christoffel, Tobias Linzert

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42 (7), 1435-1446

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1868

Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1862

Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching

Michele Pellizzari

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(1), 25-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1861

The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Yves Zenou

revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1850

Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions

Denis Fougère, Thierry Kamionka

published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd ed., Springer, 2008, 865-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1848

Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1840

Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Michael Beenstock, Barry R. Chiswick, Ari Paltiel

revised paper published as "Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 7-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1839

Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright, Gyula Nagy

revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1826

Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50 (2), 318-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1825

Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods

Denis Fougère, Jacqueline Pradel, Muriel Roger

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (7), 846-869

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1823

The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One?

Hector Sala, José I. Silva

fully revised version published in: Investigaciones Económicas, 2009, 33 (2), 145-178